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Oil inventories will continue to rise, but the momentum is slowing.  The following are some observations as to how we got here and how we're going to get out. 9 reasons why oil has taken so long to bottom: 1. OPEC...

Equities and oil continue to be moving in the same direction.  During the first few weeks, they were moving down together and now up together.  It is frustrating for asset managers.  Large cap and small cap stocks are moving together...

Oilprice.com recently spoke with Carl Larry, Director of Oil and Gas at Frost & Sullivan, a consultancy that conducts research on oil and gas markets, to get his thoughts on the state of oil in 2016. Oilprice.com: I saw that...

Barclays, Pearson and Virgin Media have all announced significant job cuts as part of a growing pressure to cut costs, adding up to more than 6,000 job cuts in total. Firms are increasingly turning to cost-reduction strategies as a coping...

The announcement of over 1000 job losses at Tata Steel – the vast majority at the Port Talbot plant in South Wales – has understandably provoked heated debate. Yet this is just the latest incident in the industry’s spiral of...

Every year seems like an accelerated version of the previous one. Every year we think we have reached the peak and then following year comes, paling everything before it. Will 2016 be the same? Every available sign suggests so. We...

The World Economic Forum Meeting at Davos, Switzerland this year is all about navigating a path through the “Fourth Industrial Revolution”. Preceding industrial revolutions centred on machinery, electrified mass production, and computers. The fourth premise is on emerging breakthrough technologies...

The price of oil keeps moving in one direction – down. Even political tension between Iran and Saudi Arabia (historically a cause of price rises) has not stopped the drop. It may come as a surprise to some, but it...

The rift between Saudi Arabia and Iran has quickly ballooned into the worst conflict in decades between the two countries. The rift between Saudi Arabia and Iran has quickly ballooned into the worst conflict in decades between the two countries....

NuOilSuwannar / Shutterstock.com There are yet unconfirmed reports that Twitter plans to extend its 140-character limit to 10,000. However, why would Twitter consider radically changing its most unique characteristic? NuOilSuwannar / Shutterstock.com There are yet unconfirmed reports that Twitter plans...

If you live in Asia and the Pacific, do you ever wonder how high your risk is of contracting antimicrobial-resistant bacteria or emerging infectious diseases such as a new strain of avian influenza? Unfortunately, I have to tell you that...

Oil prices jumped on the first trading day of 2016 as Middle East tension outweighed a selloff in financial markets around the world. Oil prices jumped on the first trading day of 2016 as Middle East tension outweighed a selloff...

OPEC says that $10 trillion worth of investment will need to flow into oil and gas through 2040 in order to meet the world’s energy needs.  The OPEC published its World Oil Outlook 2015 (WOO) in late December, which struck...

Thirty years ago, the international development community was in a state of high excitement. The perfect market-affirming solution to poverty in developing countries had apparently been found - microcredit, also known as microfinance. This involved giving micro-loans to the poor...

It has been a turbulent year for oil. Prices were strong in summer 2014, before plummeting in the second half of that year. After a modest stabilisation in early 2015, they dropped even further and are now more than two...